The South China Morning Post's editors have a sense of humour: "New Zealand MP Winston Peters accused of racism over Wong joke" was the headline.

Television entrepreneur Richard Driver has returned to the production sector and has been appointed to head the prolific Greenstone TV.

The publishing industry is using online tools to tailor its publications to what readers want — which means what’s hot on the web is what comes off the printing press.

Former NZX boss Mark Weldon is taking over as CEO of Mediaworks, the company which owns TV3, Four and controls half of the country's commercial radio market.

Imagine a plane is taking off from Heathrow Airport. It crashes on the runway. Do you continue to film the burning aircraft or pan away?

Former motorsport boss Max Mosley may serve an injunction on Google over the continued publication of images of him taken at an orgy.

AP announced that it is now publishing stories on corporate earnings based on an algorithm that aggregates data - machines rather than humans will be writing more of these stories.

Murdoch had been organising the biggest deal of his career: a US$80 billion ($92.2 billion) bid for Time Warner by 21st Century Fox, his entertainment company.

I would as soon run naked through the New World pet food section than turn up at anyone's door to ask them about their alleged affair with the pool boy, writes Polly Gillespie.

Ten years ago, Pita Sharples - now Minister of Maori Affairs - said he wanted to see an end to mangled te reo words used in Parliament and in mainstream media broadcasts.

APN News & Media has bought out its partner in a Hong Kong outdoor advertising joint venture for A$14 million.

Rupert Murdoch is bidding to create by far the world's largest film and television company with an attempted takeover of Time Warner.

A comment to a reporter that he was selling all his companies and giving the money to charity was a polite way of telling him to 'f-off', says Navman founder Peter Maire.

'Oh, you work at Consumer, what a wonderful organisation. My parents used to get Consumer magazine."

Mike Hosking's article in last Friday's Herald attacking the Labour Party and supporting the National Party raises some interesting issues, writes Michael Cullen.

Julie Christie has sold off the Living and Food channels to Discovery Networks, leaving MediaWorks staff with the prospect that she might apply for the soon-to-be-vacant chief executive's role.

MediaWorks group chief executive officer, Sussan Turner has resigned after 30 years with the company - going back to the days when it was controlled by Steven Joyce.

A senior journalist working for a rival to the News of the World was alleged to be involved in directing a private investigator to hack into the voicemails of Milly Dowler.

Evidence suggests that Rupert Murdoch's News International paid private detectives unlawfully accessed the phone records of a leading IRA mole in hiding.

Fairfax Media has reached agreement with rival APN News & Media to have its newspapers printed at APN's modernised print facility in Auckland.

Auckland Transport mounts lively ad campaign, then undermines it by using shuttle vans to help staff get around instead of public transport.

Editorial: It is common in election years for political parties under pressure to attempt to shoot the messenger. And the Herald's been shot many times.

Playboy is getting more time to transform itself into a licensing company from an aging publisher as readers desert print.

British PM David Cameron has apologised to Parliament for hiring ex-tabloid editor Andy Coulson, convicted yesterday over phone hacking. But now he's in trouble too.

Tony O’Reilly, the Irish businessman whose investments once stretched to the NZ Herald newspaper, has asked for more time to sell assets to repay debts.